Quotes About Time

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars – it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

Czy ludzie niecierpliwi nie przypominaj? duchów, które nigdy nie s? tu, w tym miejscu, i teraz, w tej w?a?nie chwili, ale wystawiaj? g?ow? z ?ycia jak ci w?drowcy, którzy podobno, gdy znale?li si? na ko?cu ?wiata, wyjrzeli poza horyzont.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

In reality, movement doesn't exist. Like the turtle in Zeno's paradox, we're heading nowhere, if anything we're simply wandering into the interior of a moment, and there is no end, nor any destination.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

Once we have reached a certain age, it's hard to be reconciled to the fact that people are always going to be impatient with us.

Literature is built on tenderness toward any being other than ourselves. It is the basic psychological mechanism of the novel. Thanks to this miraculous tool, the most sophisticated means of human communication, our experience can travel through time, reaching those who have not yet been born, but who will one day turn to what we have written, the stories we told about ourselves and our world.

Inimene muutub, kasvab vanadest oludest välja nagu laps rõivaist. Aeg voolab ja muudab kõike. On suuri ja väikesi sõdu, need suured muudavad maailma, väikesed inimest.

Man harnesses his suffering to time. He suffers as a result of the past and extends his suffering into the future. In this way he creates despair.

leven, het is een vreemd leven als men 's ochtends terugkeert naar wat men 's avonds heeft achtergelaten

Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.

Marta háza olyan, mint ? – hozzá hasonlóan nem ismer semmit, sem Istent, sem a teremtményeit, s?t saját magát sem, semmit sem akar tudni a világról. Egyetlen pillanat van benne, csak a "most", az viszont óriási, minden irányban elnyúlik, agyonnyom, nem embernek való.

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.

It has to do instead with the presentiment men have at every moment of their lives, a foreboding adamantly hushed and hidden—that left to their own devices, in the dull, quiet company of passing time, they would atrophy faster. As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity, a high-stakes race, a triumph and, immediately afterward, exhaustion

To be impatient means never really living, being always in the future, in what will happen, but which is after all not yet here. Do not impatient people resemble spirits who are never here in this place, and now, in this very moment, but rather sticking their heads out of life like those wanderers who supposedly, when they found themselves at the end of the world, just looked onward, beyond the horizon? What did they see there? What is it that an impatient person hopes to glimpse?

Ksi??yc to tylko maska s?o?ca. Wk?ada j?, kiedy wychodzi noc? pilnowa? ?wiata. Ksi??yc ma krótk? pami??, nie pami?ta, co by?o miesi?c temu

It did take Odysseus twenty years." "That doesn't matter," the professor replied merrily. "In today's day and age you could do it in two weeks.

There is only one thing we cannot have—eternal life, and, by God, whence did that concept come into our heads, that idea of being immortal?

Am I like that lost day when you fly east, and that regained night that comes from going west?

her hands are hennaed in a complex design made less legible by each passing day.

And there remain blades of grass that are succulent and green, as if they have forgotten it's the end of October, and that it freezes at night.

Med štirikratnimi menjavami letnih ?asov drevo ne ve, da obstaja ?as in da si letni ?asi sledijo. Za drevo obstajajo vse vrednosti hkrati. Zima je del poletja, jesen del pomladi, del vro?ine je hlad, del rojevanja je smrt. Ogenj je del vode in zemlja del zraka.

zaczynam wychodzi? z momentu "teraz" i stawa? ju? jedn? nog? w momencie "potem".